CVE-2011-4945

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2011-12-09
Bugzilla:
807712: CVE-2011-4945 polkit: Members of 'wheel' group allowed to become root without providing a password

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

PolicyKit 0.103 sets the AdminIdentities to "wheel" by default, which allows local users in the wheel group to gain root privileges without authentication.

Find out more about CVE-2011-4945 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the version of polkit as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 as it did not include the upstream commit 763faf434b445c20ae9529100d3ef5290976d0c9 that introduced this issue.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 6.8
Base Metrics AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Low
Authentication Single
Confidentiality Impact Complete
Integrity Impact Complete
Availability Impact Complete

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 polkit Not affected

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